The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINos.

been arrested in Atlanta, Ga, for forg.
Ing his mamie ID d sertife lte OF proficien
cy, which procured for hin d school at
Oconec,
Another enterprise for the South, the
Decatur tAla.J Wire Fen &c Machine Com
patty, has beer organ fed with a capital
stock OF SOS 600 1t will give employment
to some thirty five men. The Land com
pany at Decatur has sold at private sale,
recently, 1895, 900 worth of business prop
erty. The lots were sold at from $50 to
$40 per front foot. The price received for
the twelve acres is more THAI half as
much as the Land company paid for the
afty-sx acres OF town lands owned by
them
severe hail-storm, acconreuisd with
lightning, passed over Somerville, fCnh.,
a few days ago. Serious damage was
| lone to crops, and w. II Boyd, prom
| inent colored politician of Fdvette County,
was instantly killed by lightning. The
| bolt struck a cabin. in which he, together
| with his son. had taken refuge: Enc
| child was stunned, but soon recovered.
Boyd was the Repu blican candidate for
Representative from Fayette County at
| The last election, but was defeated.
H. II. Robertson, aged twenty one
| years, in the employ of the Western I'M
| ion Telegraph Company, at Memphis,
Tenn, and detailed to aid the construction
corps, was killed few days ago by fall
| lng from a moving train.
Near Corbn, KY, few days ago, John
| Toomey. resident OF Lexington, while
guarding cOnvicts on the Louisville South
srn, actidentlS shct himself. dying in.
| stantly.
A copperhead snake bit farmer VIM
Winters of Davidson County, Tenn, on
| he hand a few days ago while he was
| planting sweet potato slips and killed
him. He suffered intensely, his body
swelling to twice it's natural size.
THE marshal of Waynes boro, Ga, re-
Gently killed eleven moccasin snakes
with his revolver, but The reptiles still
| kept coming forward from under the logs
| in such numbers that he was forced to re-
treat The marshal is said tt be a man
Of veracity and wholly temperate.
A tanner at GAINESVILLE, Ga, is shipping
large quantities of un nfinishe1 leather to
| Boston, because, while he can tan the
| leather much cheaper than it can be done
| in Massachusetts, it can be finished bet
ter and cheaper there, owing to the use
of improved machinery.
Six wagon loads of gambling parapher-
MALTA, contiScated by the police, were
publicly burned at Atlanta, Ga, a few
days ago. The value of the stuff is
placed at $1,000, and the gamblers
threaten to sue the city for damages.
Near Macon, Ga, there is a mule with
an artificial throat. H. was sick with
| something like laryngitis, and the veteri-
nary surgeon seeing that it would soon
| be impossible for the animal to breathe
| through his windpipe a portion of the
pipe was removed and silver tube was
inserted, and now the mule bfeathes
| freely.
Craig Tolliver, the most notorious des-
perado now living in Kentucky. has had
himself elected to judgeship in Rows n
County Nobody could be found with
| nerve enough to vote against him, and so
Craig will mount the woosack after hlv-
| ing murdered a score of people and hay-
| ing been indicted for nearly all the
| crimes known to the statutes.
| Reports from Calhoun County, Fia.,
state that an epilemic of rabies among
| dogs and cattle rrev nils there. Several
persons, it is said. have been bitten by the
| ia bid dogs. Mach excitement prevails in
the count ?, and dog and cattle-k ling par
ties are organizing.
A duel with /; z)rs occurred near Wood
rug, s. c., few days ago. The principals
were two dusky Amazons, and the cause
| was a mutual sweetheart whose entire
affections were claimed by both. The
| women fought until in " succumbad from
| exhaustion, caus ID by loss of blood. Both
received serious and perhaps fatal
wounds. They fought with keen razors,
which were skllfully manipulated.
There have been total of twel lty-nine
cases of yellow yer at Key West. Fla,
up to present writing. The sickness has
been confined to the class of mechanics
who ficcked there after the fire. Many Of
| them are dissipated and have not saved
enough to get away with' II the Board
of Health could send fifty of these people
| to New York at a cost of about 81 0 o,
nothing more, it is thought, would be
! heard of yellow fever there.
| Binks Hill and c. d. Little, young men
| belonging to the best families in Macon,
Ga, went outside the city limits to fight
a duel few days ago. Little knew that
the pistols were not loaded with bullets,
| but Hill took the latter seriously and
bravely went through. Two shots Were
| fred when Little fell, and Hill wanted a
| pistol to kill himself. He was then told
| of the Joke On their return to the city
| both nren shook hands and are now
| friends.
! An illicit still was captured a few
nights ago near Admission, Ala, in Horse
| Gap mountains Five hundred gallons OF
beer were destroyed. The still was 4
homemade affair, with a capacity OF
about six gallons per day. The capture
was made by United States Deputy Mar
| shall Bects. Reuben II. Burden, the dis
tiller, was brought before Commissioner
| Jeffers, pleaded guilty as charged, and
was held to answer before the Septem'
| Der term of the United States Court, in
| Birmingham. Defendant is rough, lily
clad, barefooted man, looks like he had
never been among civilized people, and
says he has been carrying OIL the bu 'iness
| ten years
A few days ago, while " H. Tillery and
his brother-in-law, a Mr.. Griswor.d, were
returning to Greenvlle, Miss, from
Florida, the county seat of East Carroll
Parish, La, they were sudeHly fired up N
by several parties in ambush. Tillery
was riddled with bullets, and diet in
stantly. The mule which Grisworld rode
was shot and singullrly p 'otectel it,
rider, who es, aped W thout injury. 1t Is
| believed th3t the murd erers belong to the
| same brigade who some months ago mur
dered Ma jor John McDay and his cook and
afterward cremated them in their house
also burned a great many residences and
fences on plantations owned by s. Viii
kowski, and lynchei a colored mar
named Gooi win and a woman near Floyd
in the last thirty days.
| Yellow fever continues in Florida.
John Hank, white, and John Crawford
colored, escap ped from the Ill at Danville
KY, Il few nights ago. The former wa
held without bail on a case against hin